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eMOLT Update 2023-08-11
This week is a busy one for the eMOLT team. George put in almost 1000
miles of driving to install eMOLT systems along the coast of Maine with
Andrew, Chris, Ryan, and Tessa from the Maine Lobster Institute.



How many scientists does it take to install an eMOLT system?
Sometimes that depends on how many other electronics are already
installed in the wheelhouse
Erin also got out into the field helping to deploy some dissolved
oxygen loggers and working with Huanxin to upgrade the deckbox on the
F/V Lina Rose.
On the modeling side, we also got a notification from Qichun Xu at
the Univeristy of Massachusetts School for Marine Science and Technology
that the NECOFS group has begun to incorporate realtime eMOLT data into
their forecast model! The plot below shows the first eMOLT points that
were assimilated on 2023-08-08

Acknowledgements
Thank you to captains Dustin, Sam, Dominic, Jim, and Jamien who
graciously made time for us to work on their boats this week. Welcome
aboard! We appreciate your willingness to participate in the
program.
Thanks also to the Chen lab at SMAST for their efforts to incorporate
eMOLT data into the NECOFS forecasts. It’s all well and good to collect
the data, but it’s really great to see it being used!

Forecasts
NECOFS Bottom Temperature Forecast

Doppio Bottom Temperature Forecast

Other News
The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries recently released a
report titled “Estimating
the Costs of Using On-Demand Gear in Massachusetts Lobster
Fisheries”. The report indicates that “operational time costs
and resulting decreases in catch revenue associated with the decreased
efficiency of the type of on-demand gear we used to parameterize the
model could be significant, reaching a similar level of cost to the
acquisition of the gear itself for some classes of lobster fishing
vessel.”
Announcements
- The Woods Hole Science
Stroll is back on this year! Tomorrow (August 12), we welcome anyone
who’s interested in meeting scientists and learning more about the work
we do to come down to Water Street in Woods Hole. In addition to the
Cooperative Research Branch staff many of you already know and other
NOAA Fisheries scientists, staff from other scientific organizations
will be around giving demos of hardware and explaining their research.
We’d be happy to have you stop in! Participating organizations include:
- Marine Biological Laboratory
- US Coast Guard
- US Geological Survey
- Woodwell Climate Research Center
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution …and more!
All the best, George and JiM
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